How to deal with a breakup

Come to think of it, I did jump in my car. Drove eight hours and punched the asshole.

 

Several women apparently have figured out how

 

It is called 'to jersey' an individual. And no, I did not. But his brother was watching and started laughing his ass off.

 

That was a long time ago. And we're actually on speaking terms. I'm really good friends with her best friend from high school.

Plus I've been with a wonderful woman for four years.

 

Let me clear this up for you, IJAG.

You're a girl. He's a guy.

Two completely different ways of thinking about the friend-or-lay issue.

Girls have opposite-sex friends. Guys, as Chris Rock said, have female friends they haven't slept with yet. (By friends, I mean someone you could legitimately call a "best" friend.)

 

I'm so hurt :-*

 

:-[

 

Men and women can't be friends because the sex part will always get in the way</harryburns>

 

I had a friend who lived by that theory. The only reason he was able to consider me a 'friend' was because he was already married.
I used to try to refute him. As I've grown and learned, I believe it to be true.

 

So I SHOULDN'T sleep with my male friends then?

I just figured that got that out of the way, and then I could figure out if they really wanted to be friends or not.

 

Whoa. Nice blanket statement.

A female friend and I had to endure some nasty rumors (poor kid ... being linked with me might be destroying her good name  :'().

We've never dated, though goodness knows enough people tried to link us somehow. The way I see it, if a relationship is meant to be, then one must be able to get along with the other's friends. Her dates and those who have become significant others have no problems with me - probably because I've never been considered even remotely a threat. She has a strong enough personality that I suspect that anyone who's dating her that has a problem with her friends will have a problem with her.

And no ... there won't be a Sea Bass-type ending here. Too much like siblings ... and we both know it.

 

The only benefit to having a female friend with whom I'm not having sex: I don't have to be nice to waiters when we're having dinner, on account of I'm not trying to impress her.